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II SÉRIE-A — NÚMERO 55

Declarations of plant sites producing schedule 3 chemicals

3 — Initial and annual declarations are required for all plant sites that comprise one or more plants which produced during the previous calendar year or are anticipated to produce in the next calendar year more than 30 tonnes of a schedule 3 chemical.

4 — Each State Party shall submit:

a) Initial declarations pursuant to paragraph 3 not later than 30 days after this Convention enters into force for it; and, starting in the following calendar year;

b) Annual declarations on past activities not later than 90 days after the end of the previous calendar year;

c) Annual declarations on anticipated activities not later than 60 days before the begining of the following calendar year. Any such activity additionally planned after the annual declaration has been submitted shall be declared not later than five days before this activity begins.

5 — Declarations pursuant to paragraph 3 are generally not required for mixtures containing a low concentration of a schedule 3 chemical. They are only required, in accordance with guidelines, in such cases where the ease of recovery from the mixture of the schedule 3 chemical and its total weight are deemed to pose a risk to the object and purpose of this Convention. These guidelines shall be considered and approved by the Conference pursuant to article vttt, paragraph 21, i).

6 — Declarations of a plant site pursuant to paragraph 3 shall include:

a) The name of the plant site and the name of the owner, company, or enterprise operating it;

b) Its precise location including the address; and

c) The number of plants within the plant site which are declared pursuant to part vii of this Annex.

7 — Declarations of a plant site pursuant to paragraph 3 shall also include, for each plant which is located within the plant site and which falls under the specifications set forth in paragraph 3, the following information:

a) The name of the plant and the name of the owner, company, or enterprise operating it;

b) Its precise location within the plant site, including the specific building or structure number, if any;

c) Its main activities.

8 — Declarations of a plant site pursuant to paragraph 3 shall also include the following information on each schedule 3 chemical above the declaration .threshold:

a) The chemical name, common or trade name used by the facility, structural formula, and Chemical Abstracts Service registry number, if assigned;

b) The approximate amount of production of the chemical in the previous calendar year, or, in case of declarations on anticipated activities, anticipated for the next calendar year, expressed in the ranges: 30 to 200 tonnes, 200 to 1,000 tonnes, 1,000 to 10,000 tonnes, 10,000 to 100,000 tonnes, and above 100,000 tonnes; and

c) The purposes for which the chemical was or will be produced.

Declarations on past production of schedule 3 chemicals for chemical weapons purposes

9 — Each State Party shall, not later than 30 days after this Convention enters into force for it, declare all plant sites comprising plants that produced at any time since 1 January 1946 a schedule 3 chemical for chemical weapons purposes.

10 — Declarations of a plant site pursuant to paragraph 9 shall include:

a) The name of the plant site and the name of the owner, company, or enterprise operating it;

b) Its precise location including the address;

c) For each plant which is located within the plant site, and which falls under the specifications set forth in paragraph 9, the same information as required under paragraph 7, subparagraphs a) to c); and

d) For each schedule 3 chemical produced for chemical weapons purposes:

i) The chemical name, common or trade name used by the plant site for chemical weapons production purposes, structural formula, and Chemical Abstracts Service registry number, if assigned;

ii) The dates when the chemical was produced and the quantity produced; and

«7) The location to which the chemical was delivered and the final product produced there, if known.

Information to States Parties

11 — A list of plant sites declared under this section together with the information provided under paragraphs 6, 7, a), 7, c), 8, a), and 10 shall be transmitted by the Technical Secretariat to States Parties upon request.

B — Verification General

12 — Verification provided for in paragraph 5 of article vi shall be carried out through on-site inspections at those declared plant sites which produced during the previous calendar year or are anticipated to produce in (he next calendar year in excess of 200 tonnes aggregate of any schedule 3 chemical above the declaration threshold of 30 tonnes.

13 — The programme and budget of the Organization to be adopted by the Conference pursuant to article vin, paragraph 21, a), shall contain, as a separate item, a programme and budget for verification under this section taking into account part vn, paragraph 13, of this Annex.

14 — Under this section, the Technical Secretariat shall randomly select plant sites for inspection through appropriate mechanisms, such as the use of specially designed computer software, on the basis of the following weighting factors:

a) Equitable geographical distribution of inspections; and

b) The information on the declared plant sites available to the Technical Secretariat, related to the relevant chemical, the characteristics of the plant site and the nature of the activities carried out there.